The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-23
HE CAME TO THE SHOW
THE VIEWS OF A VISITOR WHO AT
TENDED THE RECEPTION.
He Saw the President and Various Other
objectsof More or Less Interest, In
Guiding the Fireworks, and
Makes Due Comment.


in one of the rooms Of prominent hotel,
on Sunday, when the writer OF il and most
OF the swarming multitude had pulled
themselves together and pulled out for
their homes. II begins in this style;
81 reached here Friday morning, Forty
ear loads of folks kun along wild me, but
when ! got up Ia the center Of the town
and seen the mass of human flesh movin
up and down the streets II looked like us
nobody had ever died here. OF course
lots Of EN- was visitcH, hut memphis IN
bigger place by itself than most folks
think. It's II real live town all the yerc
round and duz the bisncss for four or five
states. The people sell all their cotton
here, buy their goods, and when the old
man wants 10 show his green eyed and
ignorant son what u big city looks like, and
how the people act, he tells him 10 he ON
his good behavior and work hard till crop
is gathered, aud hc'll fetch him along when
he goes 10 sell his cotton. II was u little
early in the season, but all them iellcrs,
wild their wives and the good boys wcr
here. They seen IL all for they kun
for that particular purpose, and wcrc bent
on gttin the wuth of their mummy. The
special train bearing the pickpockcts and
con men KUN in Thursday night. They
were daisies, | tell YOU, finely dressed and
wide awake fcllcrs, who kun for hisnCSs
and didn't do nuthin' else, until som Ov
'em were pinchcd. They fairly ilrcccd
the people, and u policeman told me that
they nippcd, in all, about $1,000 IN good
mummy aud jcwclry. expect lots of the
stolen dimons were from Hot Springs,
aud splits which had been rubbed up Tor
the occasion. Cleveland palicc an wheels
shut down the brakes ON the Arkansas
side about 800 o'clock in the afternoon,
aud about 200 gcnuls, kunncls, etc,
headed by brass band, the
thickasaw warriors, who carried
guns, plumcs and all the other
paraiornalia Of war except the dcdly am
munishun, boarded the peaceful scuw
Katherine Adams, aud went over Ia tow
him on this side This naval lcatyur Tux
about 80 cents with oi an hour Ia the
interim, ~ our departed friends, the Ro-
mans, would say, all the people gathered
ON the banks OF the butiiul river Ia watch
and hail the comm of his excellence
There must have been 100000 ui EN-
along the bank, aud they were ~ eager
aud good -hunorcd ~ they wcrc numerous
Crowded and innmcd upon the river bank
II looked like Mnscs and his crowd whcr
old Faro was pu-lin' 'cm in the Red yea
but two or three mounted pcrlicc and &
GORDON of colurcd braves with drawn
sabcrs kept 'cm from junpin' in aud swim.
min out 10 the tug aud takin' possession
of the old man. Wei, the gallant ship
pulled and rounded IN amid the untnmed
Wells aud lung splitting cheers NJ the joyus
multitude, and the hand and the snldycn-
walked the gang plank with hckummin
dignity, followed by his jngs Tim Camp.
bell, ui New York, called him his Mills. ,
aud got GUESSED out for IL, hut III take my
chances for using tile marked distinction
'ings, leaning on the nrmo nn unscnrrcd
lrnml and Mn. Cleveland, with good
stout grip on the arm Oi one NJ Black
stones hoys, of course hc IN Judge.
tmilcd next in the pruccShun over the
cuhhlc stones up the bluff to the carriages.
which stool about half way. Al this time
the crowd continued tO yell aud push
and iu-llc each other for u chance to scr
the big Builalonian aud liis very sweet aud
very pnty vito. II say this adyisrily,
for la my humble opinion she IN lola
When they got In their carriagcs they had
a. vi there for several minutes In ORDER iur
the pcflis" a. clear the way Tor 'em to get
out on the street over which they wcrp
driven a. the GayOsp hotel. II was Only
about three squares Ia the hotel, but !
don't reckon more people were even
crowded into the same space There wis
one tO every square inch. The wards NJ
the nation, thO-c pcttcd chcruhs of the
fifteenth amendment, were thcr by an
Overlooking majority. II took about NJ.
teen minutes a. drive the short distance.
aud his jnfoi seemed a. draw big broad
sigh oi nlicf ~ lac came near fitting the
cnringc over with his 2S0 pounds NJ nyur.
dupoise NJ he stepped out 10 enter
the hotel door. The entire party
went straight "a their rooms aud remained
thcrc until tea. After which they went
to the custom-housc, which, In its neat
elegance, sets on the blufI overlooking tho
river and the Arknnsaw swamp on the
other side. Tho special object Of going "a
the custOm-hOusC was tO witness the grand
fireworks displnyl2l. Tbs WIS Ia bc the
lcadingintrOduciory fcntyrof the Occnsion
hate 90 say it-but Ia write the unyar,
nishcd truth IN my mission ON earth thC
whole thing WIS miserable abortion from
beginning Ia end. Fortunately II did NOD
last long There had been lso learned
n good deal Of competition among different
companies 10 grt the contract ipi
this leading attmctionY) but the
committee foolishly gave II "a
the Unexccllcd fireworks company
II New York. The Lord aud the commit
trn only know how much the company wa
paid for their fiEzling sky rockets, but Il !,
safe 90 say, II they got over 500 Il WIS Just
that too much. All the arrangements, q,
| have said, were on a big scale. In ia,
hrst place, a grand stand, on which ia,
President aud about 900 more u the gen,
rails and their ladies were Ia vet, had been
erected, slanting from the second story 81
the building down a. the bluff II wa,
crowded for all Il would hold. There hnt
been six coal bargcs hired, which were sta
toned out In the middle oi the river, from
which the great fireworks 90 were I,
ascend. They commenced "a shoot an,
/ hzz about $50 O'Clock One little pun,
rocket would ~ up, and then another
| This went on for about hat ~
/ hour, and everybody In the mean
time was ayin' they'll GIT stmtc,
/ directly but big catfish must have kun
along aud splashcd n damper on the fuses
for the blasted things, II they had any
never did shoot worth cent To Civ
YOU an idea Of what Il looked like, Jus
| Imagine YOU see a stray lightnin' bug on
dark night, Of his own free viii and Nc
cord. rise np out Of the Arkansas swan
and try Ia iy over the river 10 the Tcnnc'
sec side, but give out by the uno lac g.